Day 24: BAD Blogger!

6 days, three pat downs and several internet outages later...

I'm Back!

Beard 2: Coming back in, nothing to write home about.

Free Meals: 11 (a very special thanks to Kim Mason who bought me lunch AND drove me to the DMV)

New-to-me Movies: 6 (i figured this number would have been higher by now)

Jobs applied to: 10

Interviews: 1

My apologies dear friends. Unemployment has been surprisingly busy. I didn't even manage a post-shave picture. But don't worry, I have to shave again on Monday for interview number 2. We can do the whole side by side comparison then.

One thing I learned on my vacation: My driver's license expired back in February. How did I learn this? The nice man at Delta told me when I tried to check a bag for my flight back to New York. I was then red flagged frisked three times and "randomly" selected for additional security screening. I was well aware why I was flagged, there's really no need to call it random.

The good news is, when I replaced the license on Monday, I finally got rid of my "harry potter" picture and look like a grownup on my license.

I promise to return to my regular silly posts tomorrow. In the meantime here's where beard 1 peaked:

Day 18: Shaved at Last

I jetted off to DC for a job interview so I am clean shaven.  Before and after pics tomorrow.

Day 17: The Unexpected Innings

Today I received my first unemployment benefits.  It's kinda funny actually, its really just my parents' money, given to the federal government, given to the state of New York and then given to me.  Maybe we could cut out the middlemen by making giving money to your grown children tax deductible?

Anyway, I pledge to do my duty to stimulate the US Economy by drinking only bourbon and domestic beer.  

Not on the job seeking, resume pumping agenda for today was a baseball game!  But when your ex-employer offers you REALLY expensive seats to a Yankee game, you go.  And boy did I get my money's worth.  FOURTEEN INNINGS!  And in case you were wondering, there IS a fourteenth inning stretch.  Fun Fact: a quick google search tells me that the longest major league baseball game was 25 innings.  So one must assume there is also a 21st inning stretch.  Don't say you never learned anything from this blog.

Day 16: The Mall Cop Genre

New-To-Me Movies: 5

Apparently this year the "Mall Cop" movie became a genre of its own.  I did not see Paul Blart: Mall Cop.  But, I can say that Observe and Report was pretty darn good.

This movie manages to be entirely sick and twisted without feeling sick and twisted.  Does that make any sense?  Observe and Report very easily could have been juvenile, depressing, far too creepy or all three.  You have to give Seth Rogen a lot of credit for taking this psychologically disturbed security guard and making him more than a joke but an at times likable/relatable character. 

This movie is a daring comedy, and those are few and far between.  Bravo.

Oh and Beard:

Day 15: Rain Delay

Beard: Oh, you know, it's there kinda itchy.  I'm thinking about cleaning it up a bit.  Mostly getting rid of the stuff creeping down my neck.  Is that cheating?

Not much bloggable happened today.  It rained and I took the opportunity to CV and Cover Letter.

Better luck, well probably not tomorrow, its going to keep raining.

Weekend!

For me, everyday is Friday (from now on!). But there is actually a difference for those around me from weekdays and weekends. This weekend we'll be making some very big strides in the home stretch of finally finishing work on A Border Story.

If you don't know about the movie, check out our website.  Our beautiful, new updated website will be at that same location. Someday soon.

Of course I am also spending Saturday morning posting posts for the days I missed this week and pretending they were there all along.  Enjoy.

Day 12: 3 Boroughs and a Museum

Beard: I'll get you another picture soon. I am running out of self-deprecating adjectives.

It's funny how when I go most places in Brooklyn I end up going through Manhattan and back out into Brooklyn again to get there. Today I went to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens and I didn't have to visit Manhattan to get there.

The museum by the way, absolutely tiny during the renovations. Erin, Judith and I got chased down by a guard for poking around by an emergency exit wondering if we had missed SOMETHING, anything! But, it is just the 2 floors. Among the items on display: Star Wars Episode 1 toothbrushes! Really?